Wiki Wikis

Hello everyone,

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In our last course our subject was Wikis and we learned a lot about it. For example did you know that you can write anything you like and edit others writings! So our task was to creating a wiki page about our favourite book. My favourite book is "Dimming Nights" from Rifat Ilgaz and I created a wiki page about it. I attached link of my wiki page is here I hope you enjoy it!

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the image A1 is taken from here
the image A2 is taken from here

Sound-rich podcast story

Hello my lovely followers,

We really enjoy it! I mean really!

This week our task was to creating a podcast. Me and my friend Dilruba (here is her blog) chose a sound rich story to create a podcast. The process of podcasting was so funny. We tried to find creative ideas. I really enjoyed while making podcast. I probably will use podcasting with my students in the future because I think it is very entertaining and instructive. We used Audocity and Freesound apps.

Teaching with Technology

Hello dear readers, 

Today I would like talk about the topic “teaching with technology”. First of all what is technology? Technology means according to the Wikipedia “The tools and machines that helps to solve problems or do new things; The techniques, skills and methods for solving a problem”.  So it means that blackboard, pencil, power point presentations, or high-tech tablets are technological tools. But in what ways these tools linked to education? How these tools can be integrated to education? Actually we can’t separate technology from education. Because in every step of education we need help of the technology. With technology, learning process can be enhanced and increased. For example let’s think about a case, a language classroom, in which there is no technology tools, teacher is just lecturing without any technological aids. It will be boring for students to keep up with every word teacher is saying and learn everything lectured. But if we integrate some technological tools to this lesson it would be more entertaining and interesting for students. Thereby the learning process can be achieved successfully. However the tool shouldn’t be used without any aim. There should be reasonable purpose for using technological tools. In short, the method and the tool should be chosen carefully according to the aim of the course. I think using technology is very helpful for teaching process. If we want to make information and learning process permanent we should get the help of technology. Because as I mentioned previously in my “21^st century learning” post technology development has been increased so quickly that it is a requirement for us to keeping up with it in every area of our lives. To sum up, technology is a reality of our century and actually it is a very useful for us. So we should take advantage of it.

 the picture taken from  here

A Historical Timeline of CALL

Hello dear followers.

All of us using computers in our daily life but how it would be if we use computer as for educational purposes?  Actually we are already using it for that purpose and it is called “CALL”. Which means that  Computer Assisted Language Learning .It apparently can be seen that learning a language with help of computer is more easy and fun. There is a historical timeline for CALL so you can see how this magical tool became  itself over time!

Hope you enjoy it!

21st Century Learning

Hello everyone.
As we all know technology development has been increased throughout this century and gained a seat in our daily life. Therefore education got it’s share from technology. Unlike past years, education norms are totally changed. Nowadays education is not limited by textbooks, curriculum or isolated skills (listening,writing etc.) rather it is broaden its limits to thematic units and authentic resources like focusing on interpersonal, interpretive and presentational modes. Also roles of teacher and students has changed.  Now education is not teacher-centered but student-centered. The role of teacher evolved to facilitator/collaborator. Also emphasis on teacher as ‘lecturer’ changed to student as ‘doer’ and ‘creator’. Until now we watched  how  norms and invariants of learning changed. And it seems like future is going to bring a really different  changes, too. I’m so excited to see what is going to happen. Aren’t you?

Welcome!

Hi! My lovely followers.

I’m so happy to being here and seeing you guys! In my entire life I always talked too much but my audience was limited but now it is time to share my ideas and experiences. But first of all let me introduce myself. My name is Gizem and I’m studying at English Language Teaching department of Marmara University.I opened this blog for my "Instructional Technologies and Material Design" course. I'll post about my course content and my ideas.Different cultures and languages are always my field of interest. That’s why I’ve chosen ELT department.  I have learned so much things about English but my adventure continues. So if you guys are ready please fasten your seatbells because we are going to fly!!!